Weiming Shi 37537e42e6 slip: bound decode() reads against the compressed packet length
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slhc_uncompress() parses a VJ-compressed TCP header by advancing a
pointer through the packet via decode() and pull16(). Neither helper
bounds-checks against isize, and decode() masks its return with
& 0xffff so it can never return the -1 that callers test for -- those
error paths are dead code.

A short compressed frame whose change byte requests optional fields
lets decode() read past the end of the packet. The over-read bytes
are folded into the cached cstate and reflected into subsequent
reconstructed packets.

Make decode() and pull16() take the packet end pointer and return -1
when exhausted. Add a bounds check before the TCP-checksum read.
The existing == -1 tests now do what they were always meant to.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Reported-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260414134126.758795-2-horms@kernel.org/
Signed-off-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260416100147.531855-5-bestswngs@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2026-05-23 13:03:25 +02:00
2026-05-23 13:03:24 +02:00
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